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At press time, Harbaugh had sent Michigan’s athletic department an envelope containing a heavily annotated seating chart, a list of the 63,000 seat views he had found unsatisfactory, and a glowing 70-page report on section 25, row 12, seat 9, which he claimed is “exactly what the great sport of football is all about.”

Last time we faced off against Miami they were going through a major identity crisis. They could not score, the defense was awful and the goalies were lost. Despite all the problems they tore through the rest of the schedule and have become relevant once again.

Forward Overview:

Forwards are led by Smith and Czarnik, after starting slow Reilly Smith has regained his scoring touch, his 19 goals are good for 3rd nationally. The big change here is the addition of two freshman, Blake Coleman and Jimmy Mullin. The productivity give Miami depth after the first line that they did not have before.
After spending the first half of the season near the bottom of the nation in scoring, Miami has climbed up to 28th. It doesn't seem like much but the Redhawks lost three players from last seasons team who accounted for 165 points. If Miami makes the tourney Blasi should at least be nominated for a post-season COY award.
Last time we faced off against Miami they were going through a major identity crisis. They could not score, the defense was awful and the goalies were lost. Despite all the problems they tore through the rest of the schedule and have become relevant once again.

Name

Scoring Line

SOG

+/-

PIMS

BLK

Reilly Smith

19-8-27

105

+10

10

11

Austin Czrnik

7-16-23

66

+12

27

26

Alden Hirschfeld

8-10-18

56

+11

8

18

Blake Coleman

8-7-15

71

+12

36

14

Jimmy Mullin

8-7-15

71

+9

8

10

Curtis McKenzie

4-9-13

45

+8

52

1

Tyler Biggs

6-5-11

45

+1

49

7

Trent Vogelhuber

2-8-10

30

0

43

15

Defensive Overview:

Name

Scoring Line

SOG

+/-

PIMS

BLK

Chris Wideman

1-14-15

54

+8

26

28

Cameron Schilling

1-9-10

45

+10

12

37

Steven Spinell

1-8-9

28

+12

28

46

Joe Hartman

0-3-3

23

+3

12

25

Another huge turnaround for the Redhawks. Last series they were also near the bottom of the league and scoring from the blueline was non-existent. Blasi has gotten Miami up all the way to 8th in team defense, and Wideman has become an assist machine to give them a scoring threat.
Key matchup will be how our 3rd and 4th lines play against a defensive unit that is very undermanned. They have started doing the MSU thing where they switch forwards to defense because they are so depleted.

Goalie:

Name

GS

MIN

GA

GAA

SV

SV%

W-L

Connor Knapp

12

737:29

22

1.79

283

.928

8-5

Cody Reichard

16

950:31

39

2.46

356

.901

7-6-2

The last time we looked at Miami the goalies were a trash tornado. Reichard had gone from CCHA Player Of The Year to the bench, the defense was terrible and the goalies couldn't stop anything. Naturally that meant they would return to form once Michigan traveled to Oxford and they did. While the numbers for Reichard haven't improved to where he once was, Knapp has gotten considerably better and make have a lock on the starting job.
Key matchup: Just shoot the puck. The goalies aren't world beaters and good things happen when you get the puck on net.

Michigan Overview:

Name

Scoring Line

SOG

+/-

PIMS

BLK

Alex Guptil

14-12-26

82

+15

29

8

David Wohlberg

11-14-25

64

+15

24

14

Chris Brown

9-16-25

65

+12

37

14

A.J. Treais

9-7-16

87

+13

12

14

Phil Di Giuseppe

8-8-16

74

+9

12

13

Travis Lynch

6-7-13

42

+7

4

13

Lindsay Sparks

5-8-13

25

+2

20

4

Derek DeBlois

5-6-11

42

+7

10

20

It seems that the offense has finally settled in and the coaching staff has figured out where everyone needs to be. There really isn't much to say, but after the Notre Dame series hopefully they have gotten a winning combination on the powerplay lines. Michigan and Miami battle for worst PP in the nation.

Defensive Overview:

Name

Scoring Line

SOG

+/-

PIMS

BLK

Lee Moffie

3-17-20

49

+18

12

27

Mac Bennett

3-13-16

56

+6

10

35

Greg Pateryn

2-12-14

66

+7

36

38

Mike Chiasson

1-8-9

15

+13

23

39

Kevin Clare

2-5-7

21

+9

4

36

Brennan Serville

0-7-7

13

+8

2

19

Jon Merrill

0-4-4

9

+4

2

12

It's good to see this group is slowly improving after every game. I honestly thought that Notre Dames style of play would send our blueliners back to square one but they handled themselves pretty well, giving up two goals on Friday and one on Saturday. Moffie still rawks and Pateryn hits really hard.

Goalie:

Name

GS

MIN

GA

GAA

SV

SV%

W-L

Shawn Hunwick

26

1573:27

57

2.17

740

.928

15-8-3

The only player on the team who did not see his numbers go down, Hunwick saw improvements in his GAA and SV%.

Prediction
Miami caught us at the beginning of a long stretch of terrible hockey, but this time Michigan is hot and Miami is still just an ok team. Since we are at home and we have killed the Friday demon, I'm going to say sweep. From a CCHA and pairwise standpoint this game is very important, so hopefully Red has the team ready to play.

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I agree with you that this should be a sweep given the way we have played since the Alaska series in the fall, but I am cautiously optimistic. I know that Miami tends to give us trouble. With that in mind, I decided to sport my Worst State Ever shirt today.

a few years ago, (2008-2009) Maimi swept Michigan in Oxford, then came to Ann Arbor, while Yost was falling down (they moved the Friday game to Sunday, I believe, to accomodate emergency repairs from strom damage) and got handled pretty easily by the Wolverine on their way to a #1 NCAA seed and a ticket to get shut out by Air Force in Bridgeport, while Miami was, I believe, the last at-large in and made it to the final game, leading overall #1 BU 3-1 with about 90 seconds left, before BU scored twice to tie and then quickly in overtime to win the title.

Since then, it's been a pretty bleak series, with Michigan winning only once (that magical CCHA tourney run to keep the NCAA tourney streak going, that saw the rise of Hunwick) and losing the rest (including the heart-breaking Fort Wayne regional final later that year (it was a rebound, not possesion, good goal, John Gravelesse, learn how to read the rule book)), other than the tie earlier in the year.

I'm feeling a little bit like that right now, where Michigan is going to plow through a good, but nowhere near the elite they've been recently, Miami team. Except, this time not lose in the NCAA tournament at all, hopefully. I'm calling a sweep, even though I can hardly wrap my head around the concept of actually beating Miami, it's just happened so rarely recently, but I think it's time. If they don't los anybody, Miami will be back to being elite sooner rather than later, but Michigan is elite right now.

will "protect" Hunwick when he's lying in a stretcher in an ambulance. Until then, he's fair game. Please note, however, that anything stronger than a mild vocal rebuff from a Michigan defenseman against anybody running Hunwick will be dealt with immediately and harshly. We do not stand for that kind of thing in this conference.